More than 400 Jewish refugees, about half of them children, left Spain today for Palestine aboard a Portuguese ship. The children were rescued from France during the last few months of the German occupation and were helped by Jewish underground groups to cross into Spain.
A huge blue-white flag carrying the inscription “From Slavery to Freedom” in Hebrew Letters decorated the steamer when it left Cadiz harbor. This is the second ship to sail directly from Portugal and Spain to Palestine carrying Jewish refugees.
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